[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 125 (Thursday, June 30, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39093-39095]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-13953]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

[OMB 3060-00316, OMB 3060-0750 and OMB 3060-0754; FR ID 93496]


Information Collections Being Reviewed by the Federal 
Communications Commission

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens, 
and as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the 
Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) invites the 
general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to 
comment on the following information collection. Comments are requested 
concerning: whether the proposed collection of information is necessary 
for the proper performance of the functions of the Commission, 
including whether the information shall have practical utility; the 
accuracy of the Commission's burden estimate; ways to enhance the 
quality, utility, and clarity of the information collected; ways to 
minimize the burden of the collection of information on the 
respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology; and ways to further reduce the 
information collection burden on small business concerns with fewer 
than 25 employees. The FCC may not conduct or sponsor a collection of 
information unless it displays a currently valid Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) control number. No person shall be subject to any 
penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information subject 
to the PRA that does not display a valid OMB control number.

DATES: Written PRA comments should be submitted on or before August 29, 
2022. If you anticipate that you will be submitting comments but find 
it difficult to do so within the period of time allowed by this notice, 
you should advise the contact listed below as soon as possible.

ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to Cathy Williams, FCC, via email to 
[email protected] and to [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information about the 
information collection, contact Cathy Williams at (202) 418-2918.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    OMB Control Number: 3060-0316.
    Title: 47 CFR 76.5, Definitions, 76.1700, Records to Be Maintained 
Locally by Cable System Operators; 76.1702, Equal Employment 
Opportunity; 76.1703, Commercial Records on Children's Programs; 
76.1707, Leased Access; 76.1711, Emergency Alert System (EAS) Tests and 
Activation.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 3,000 respondents; 3,000 
responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 14 hours.
    Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirements.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. The 
statutory authority for this information collection is contained in 
sections 151, 152, 153, 154, 301, 302, 302a, 303, 303a, 307, 308, 309, 
312, 315, 317, 325, 339, 340, 341, 503, 521, 522, 531, 532, 534, 535, 
536, 537, 543, 544, 544a, 545, 548, 549, 552, 554, 556, 558, 560, 561, 
571, 572, 573 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
    Total Annual Burden: 42,000 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: None.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission is seeking Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) approval for the extension of a currently approved 
collection. The information collection requirements for this 
information collection are as follows: 47 CFR 76.1700 requires cable 
system operators to place the public inspection file materials required 
to be retained by the following rules in the online public file hosted 
by the Commission, with the exception of existing political file 
material which cable systems may continue to retain in their local 
public file until the end of the retention period: Sections 76.1701 
(political file), 76.1702 (EEO), 76.1703 (commercial records for 
children's programming), 76.1705 (performance tests--channels 
delivered); 76.1707 (leased access); and 76.1709 (availability of 
signals), 76.1710 (operator interests in video programming), 76.1715 
(sponsorship identification), and 76.630 (compatibility with consumer 
electronics equipment. Cable systems with fewer than 5,000 subscribers 
may continue to retain their political file locally and are not 
required to upload new political file material to the online public 
file until March 1, 2018. In addition, cable systems may elect to 
retain the material required by Section 76.1708 (principal headend) 
locally rather than placing this material in the online public file.
    47 CFR 76.1700(b) requires cable system operators to make the 
records required to be retained by the following rules available to 
local franchising authorities: Sections 76.1704 (proof-of-performance 
test data) and 76.1713 (complaint resolution).
    47 CFR 76.1700(c) requires cable system operators to make the 
records required to be retained by the following rules available to the 
Commission: Sections 76.1704 (proof-of-performance test data), 76.1706 
(signal leakage logs and repair records), 76.1711 (emergency alert 
system and activations), 76.1713 (complaint resolution), and 76.1716 
(subscriber records).
    47 CFR 76.1700(d) exempts cable television systems having fewer 
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1,000 subscribers from the online public file and the public inspection 
requirements contained in 47 CFR 76.1701 (political file); 76.1702 
(equal employment opportunity); 76.1703 (commercial records for 
children's programming); 76.1704 (proof-of-performance test data); 
76.1706 (signal leakage logs and repair records); and 76.1715 
(sponsorship identifications).
    47 CFR 76.1700(e) requires that public file material that continues 
to be retained at the system be retained in a public inspection file 
maintained at the office which the system operator maintains for the 
ordinary collection of subscriber charges, resolution of subscriber 
complaints, and other business or at any accessible place in the 
community served by the system unit(s) (such as a public registry for 
documents or an attorney's office). Public files must be available for 
public inspection during regular business hours.
    47 CFR 76.1700(f) requires cable systems to provide a link to the 
public inspection file hosted on the Commission's website from the home 
page of its own website, if the system has a website, and provide 
contact information on its website for a system representative who can 
assist any person with disabilities with issues related to the content 
of the public files. A system also is required to include in the online 
public file the address of the system's local public file, if the 
system retains documents in the local file that are not available in 
the Commission's online file, and the name, phone number, and email 
address of the system's designated contact for questions about the 
public file. In addition, a system must provide on the online public 
file a list of the five digit ZIP codes served by the system.
    47 CFR 76.1700(g) requires that cable operators make any material 
in the public inspection file that is not also available in the 
Commission's online file available for machine reproduction upon 
request made in person, provided the requesting party shall pay the 
reasonable cost of reproduction. Requests for machine copies must be 
fulfilled at a location specified by the system operator, within a 
reasonable period of time, which in no event shall be longer than seven 
days. The system operator is not required to honor requests made by 
mail but may do so if it chooses.
    47 CFR 76.1702(a) requires that every employment unit with six or 
more full-time employees shall maintain for public inspection a file 
containing copies of all EEO program annual reports filed with the 
Commission and the equal employment opportunity program information 
described in 47 CFR 76.1702(b). These materials shall be placed in the 
Commission's online public inspection file for each cable system 
associated with the employment unit. These materials must be placed in 
the Commission's online public inspection file annually by the date 
that the unit's EEO program annual report is due to be filed and shall 
be retained for a period of five years. A headquarters employment unit 
file and a file containing a consolidated set of all documents 
pertaining to the other employment units of a multichannel video 
programming distributor that operates multiple units shall be 
maintained in the Commission's online public file for every cable 
system associated with the headquarters employment unit.
    47 CFR 76.1702(b) requires that the following equal employment 
opportunity program information shall be included annually in the 
unit's public file, and on the unit's website, if it has one, at the 
time of the filing of its FCC Form 396-C: (1) A list of all full-time 
vacancies filled by the multichannel video programming distributor 
employment unit during the preceding year, identified by job title; (2) 
For each such vacancy, the recruitment source(s) utilized to fill the 
vacancy (including, if applicable, organizations entitled to 
notification, which should be separately identified), identified by 
name, address, contact person and telephone number; (3) The recruitment 
source that referred the hiree for each full-time vacancy during the 
preceding year; (4) Data reflecting the total number of persons 
interviewed for full-time vacancies during the preceding year and the 
total number of interviewees referred by each recruitment source 
utilized in connection with such vacancies; and (5) A list and brief 
description of the initiatives undertaken during the preceding year, if 
applicable.
    47 CFR 76.1703 requires that cable operations airing children's 
programming must maintain records sufficient to verify compliance with 
47 CFR 76.225 and make such records available to the public. Such 
records must be maintained for a period sufficient to cover the 
limitation period specified in 47 U.S.C. 503(b)(6)(B). Cable television 
operators must file their certifications of compliance with the 
commercial limits in children's programming annually within 30 days 
after the end of the calendar year.
    47 CFR 76.1707 requires that if a cable operator adopts and 
enforces a written policy regarding indecent leased access programming 
pursuant to Sec.  76.701, such a policy will be considered published 
pursuant to that rule by inclusion of the written policy in the 
operator's public inspection file.
    47 CFR 76.1711 requires that records be kept of each test and 
activation of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) procedures pursuant to 
the requirement of 47 CFR part 11 and the EAS Operating Handbook. These 
records shall be kept for three years.
    47 CFR 76.5 describes certain terms covered in the cable industry.

    OMB Control Number: 3060-0750.
    Title: 47 CFR 73.671, Educational and Informational Programming for 
Children; 47 CFR 73.673, Public Information Initiatives Regarding 
Educational and informational Programming for Children.
    Form Number: N/A.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for-profit entities.
    Number of Respondents and Responses: 1,756 respondents; 1,116,816 
responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 0.017-0.084 hours.
    Frequency of Response: Third-party disclosure requirements.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. The 
statutory authority for this collection is contained in Sections 
154(i), 303, and 336 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
    Total Annual Burden: 57,105 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: None.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission is seeking Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) approval for the extension of a currently approved 
collection. The information collection requirements for this 
information collection are as follows:
    Pursuant to 47 CFR 73.671(c)(5), each commercial television 
broadcast station must identify programming as specifically designed to 
educate and inform children by the display on the television screen 
throughout the program of the symbol E/I. This requirement is intended 
to assist parents in identifying educational and informational 
programming for their children. Noncommercial television broadcast 
stations are no longer required to identify Core Programming by 
displaying the E/I symbol throughout the program.
    Pursuant to 47 CFR 73.671(e), each television broadcast station 
that preempts an episode of a regularly scheduled weekly Core Program 
on its primary stream will be permitted to

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count the episode toward the Core Programming processing guidelines if 
it reschedules the episode on its primary stream in accordance with the 
requirements of 47 CFR 73.671(e). Similarly, each television broadcast 
station that preempts an episode of a regularly scheduled weekly Core 
Program on a multicast stream will be permitted to count the episode 
toward the Core Programming processing guidelines if it reschedules the 
episode on the multicast stream in accordance with the requirements of 
47 CFR 73.671(e). Among other requirements, the station must make an 
on-air notification of the schedule change during the same time slot as 
the preempted episode. The on-air notification must include the 
alternate date and time when the program will air.
    Pursuant to 47 CFR 73.673, each commercial television broadcast 
station licensee must provide information identifying programming 
specifically designed to educate and inform children to publishers of 
program guides. This requirement is intended to improve the information 
available to parents regarding programming specifically designed for 
children's educational and informational needs. Commercial television 
broadcast station licensees are no longer required to provide program 
guide publishers an indication of the age group for which the 
programming is intended.

    OMB Control Number: 3060-0754.
    Title: FCC Form 2100, Application for Media Bureau Audio and Video 
Service Authorization, Schedule H.
    Form Number: FCC Form 2100, Schedule H.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Business or other for profit entities.
    Number of Respondents: 1,756 respondents; 1,756 responses.
    Estimated Time per Response: 10 hours.
    Frequency of Response: Recordkeeping requirement: Annual reporting 
requirement.
    Obligation to Respond: Required to obtain or retain benefits. 
Statutory authority for this collection of information is contained in 
Sections 154(i) and 303 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.
    Total Annual Burden: 17,560 hours.
    Total Annual Cost: $1,053,600.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission is seeking Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) approval for the extension of a currently approved 
collection. Commercial full-power and Class A television broadcast 
stations are required to file FCC Form 2100, Schedule H (formerly FCC 
Form 398) (Children's Television Programming Report) within 30 days 
after the end of each calendar year. FCC Form 2100, Schedule H is a 
standardized form that: (a) Provides a consistent format for reporting 
the children's educational television programming aired by licensees to 
meet their obligation under the Children's Television Act of 1990 
(CTA), and (b) facilitates efforts by the public and the FCC to monitor 
compliance with the CTA.
    Commercial full-power and Class A television stations are required 
to complete FCC Form 2100, Schedule H within 30 days after the end of 
each calendar year and file the form with the Commission. The 
Commission places the form in the station's online public inspection 
file maintained on the Commission's database (www.fcc.gov). Stations 
use FCC Form 2100, Schedule H to report, among other things, the Core 
Programming (i.e., children's educational and informational 
programming) the station aired the previous calendar year. FCC Form 
2100, Schedule H also includes a ``Preemption Report'' that must be 
completed for each Core Program that was preempted during the year. 
This ``Preemption Report'' requests information on the reason for the 
preemption, the date of each preemption, the reason for the preemption 
and, if the program was rescheduled, the date and time the program was 
re-aired.

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary, Office of the Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2022-13953 Filed 6-29-22; 8:45 am]
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